Hood: Cardboard cone covered in cloth used by penitents in Holy Week processions, according to the RAE. Also hood: to intensify the expressiveness of certain derogatory words that follow: fool, hood fool. There is more, but this will do.
This serves to show how easy it is to mess it up on Twitter when you have no idea, or precisely because of that, because you don’t have it. Holy Week and its derivations have left us some capirote moments, linked to the culture of correction that proliferates so much on the networks and, worse, in some cases outside of them. Let’s go to the nougat, even if it is the season of fritters like the one we are going to comment on.
From the sensitive space on the other side of the Atlantic, a self-defined “musician” and “activist” publicly asked, come on, in a tweet, to change the hood of the processions. We translate such an essential contribution to the list of debates about nothing, because it also included a kind of referendum that shows once again that, sometimes, it is better not to ask, lest they answer you.
“If a country like Spain is 90% white and has a tradition that is based on dressing exactly like the KKK, should they consider changing these clothes or continuing the super old tradition without worrying who it might offend?†.
Response: 92% in favor of keeping the hoods; 4% in favor of removing them; 4% are not sure. 100%: the activist deletes the tweet, after accumulating comments that leave the second definition of the RAE short. The one of hood idiots. His defense: “everyone who answers is white.” Normal, if 90%, etc.
In the middle of the debate about the rewriting of books that contain elements that some people, like our activist, may find offensive, it is interesting to review some samples of common sense that we did not expect.
1. Automatically transferring debates from one society to a different one does not make sense. Although it is done.
2. You have to get better information before trying to look good with humanity: one of the oldest brotherhoods is precisely that of the Negritos…
3. Why doesn’t the KKK change its hood? This is definitely offensive.
